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A Look Back at the PdF-That-Was

A fairly random short collection of links to bits floating around on PdF '11:

Two people who had never heard of Jim Gilliam before yesterday reflect on his talk. First, Jake Levine: "As Jim Gilliam took the stage, his slightly nervous, ever-so-geeky, sensibility betrayed no signs of the passion, earnestness, and magnificence with which he would deliver what can only described as a modern epic: his life story."

And then Jesse Noyes: "When I woke up this morning I had no idea who Jim Gilliam was. I doubt you do either... That all changed when Jim gave a stirring speech in less than 15 minutes that brought catapulted the crowd up from their seats more than once. If you don’t know the name Jim Gilliam, learn it now. I suspect you’ll be seeing a lot more of him after today. "

Egyptian activist Alaa Abd Al Fattah went on on NPR to talk about what he talked about at PdF: "My role during the uprising itself was I was a foot soldier. I was one person among a big mass. I was in Tahrir. There were similar masses in other cities. And my blog was one of many blogs that were key to building a pro-democracy movement years prior to the uprising. And the online communities then kept growing and growing, and they played a very big role leading up to the revolution in building up to that event but not during."